Spiritual Path Sayings

#1. Your spiritual developement is a divine path that leads to truth, goodness and beauty;
it is a spiritual path reflecting the unlimited, absolute nature of the universe
and the ultimate grand design of creation.

Morihei Ueshiba

#2. The spiritual path is an inward journey. On the spiritual path, the external life remains the same, but you begin the inward journey towards the truth.

Roshan Sharma

#3. Forgiveness is the fastest way to a spiritual path and inner peace of mind

Muhaya Haji Mohamad

#4. True maturation on the spiritual path requires that we discover the depth of our wounds. As Achaan Chah put it, "If you haven't cried a number of times, your meditation hasn't really begun." A

Jack Kornfield

#5. You are in charge of your own karma, your own life, your own spiritual path, and your own liberation, just as I am in charge of mine.

Lama Surya Das

#6. When you are on the spiritual path, and you are looking for the answers outside, there is an ample of reasons, for you to deviate from the path. The path of the ultimate truth is straight way inside

Roshan Sharma

#7. Constantly apply cheerfulness, if for no other reason than because you are on this spiritual path. Have a sense of gratitude to everything, even difficult emotions, because of their potential to wake you up.

Pema Chodron

#8. ...about a spiritual path, seeing the validity in all paths, and knowing that religion can help or hamper the path. The teachings in every religion are valuable. It is humanity that has bogged down in dogma and rules. Loving and practicing the teachings that ring true is the key.

Lynne Cockrum-Murphy

#9. No one spiritual path is better than another, although one may accept the universe's role in life more than another.

Meredith L. Young-Sowers

#10. [A] practitioner of any spiritual path must have complete confidence that his adopted path is, for him, superior to all others. (57)

Prem Prakash

#11. The spiritual path wrecks the body And afterwards restores it to health. It destroys the house to unearth the treasure, And with that treasure builds it better than before.

Rumi

#12. People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day.

Marianne Williamson

#13. To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.

Jack Kornfield

#14. Love is the real work of your life. It is your spiritual path. It is the key to your growth and evolution.

Robert Holden

#15. Being on the spiritual path means you want to be a success in an existential sphere, not just on a social level.

Jaggi Vasudev

#16. If we pursue a spiritual path in depth, then it changes who and what we are. There is no turning back. We can only move forward.

Vivianne Crowley

#17. Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

Sai Baba

#18. People in minority religious communities, like Paganism, often feel isolated and even marginalized by others because of the lifestyle differences associated with their spiritual path.

Brendan Myers

#19. The basis of the spiritual path is the development in ourselves of what is truly balanced, natural, and meaningful.

Tarthang Tulku

#20. We have a lot of controlling people who are trying to tell us how to live our lives, and a lot of co-dependent people around us. We bump up against these people, too, when we're trying to get on the spiritual path.

Echo Bodine

#21. The Tantric way is open to all the richness of human nature, which it accepts without a single restriction. It is probably the only spiritual path that excludes nothing and no one, and, in this way, it corresponds to the deep aspirations of men and women today.

Daniel Odier

#22. Witchcraft ... is a spiritual path. You walk it for nourishment of the soul, to commune with the life force of the universe, and to thereby better know your own life.

Christopher Penczak

#23. The most important quality on the spiritual path is courage," said Gandhi.

Paulo Coelho

#24. The great virtue of those who seek the spiritual path is courage.

Paulo Coelho

#25. The biggest surprise on the soulful journey to authenticity, whether as a philosophy or a spiritual path, is that the path is a spiral. We go up, but we go in circles. Eash time around, the view gets a little bit wider.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#26. What is Truth? Truth is the attribute of when the human heart marries the love of God, and the result is passion for your spiritual path.

Lee Carroll

#27. The spiritual journey involves going beyond hope and fear, stepping into unknown territory, continually moving forward. The most important aspect of being on the spiritual path may be to just keep moving.

Pema Chodron

#28. ...to lead an individual along a spiritual path consonant with the person's gifts and personality...[The Jesuit training of novitiates and lay students]

John W. O'Malley

#29. The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
Piet Mondrian
The Artist's Way A Spiritual Path to Greater Creativity by Julia Cameron

Piet Mondrian

#30. The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/ himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness.

Tara Brach

#31. One of the great dangers on the spiritual path is that the ego becomes spiritualized. The ego loves to think of itself as spiritually evolved. It is just another way that it manages to feel important and in control. It is very difficult to free yourself from an enlightened ego.

Leonard Jacobson

#32. Sex, creativity, music, art, family, love, beauty, and creative imagination are all part of the spiritual path in the tantric traditions. So I think that for today that has a lot to say to us about not dividing ourselves from ourselves.

Surya Das

#33. I believe everyone is on a spiritual path - some people know it, some don't. The ones that know it call themselves religious, spiritual, or Soul Searchers.

Emma Mildon

#34. Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.

Sai Baba

#35. Your truest spiritual path will lead you to yourself for it is devoted to becoming.

Mollie Marti

#36. Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.

Adyashanti

#37. On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.

Anne Lamott

#38. The spiritual path means making a path rather than following one.

Mark Epstein

#39. So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly.

Pema Chodron

#40. Fascination with the psychic - or the psychological - can be a dangerous sidetrack on any spiritual path.

Starhawk

#41. Pause and remember - The spiritual path is not always going to be smooth and easy. There are going to be difficult situations, hardships, losses and lessons. Don't lose faith along the way. You are exactly where you need to be.

Jennifer Young

#42. Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#43. When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late '60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure.

Tara Brach

#44. A spiritual path for the modern samurai, but in the service of the heart, not the dictatorship of the ego.

Vincent Thibault

#45. The spiritual path is easy. It's the only path that is.

Roger Delano Hinkins

#46. When we pay attention, whatever we are doing ... is transformed and becomes a part of our spiritual path. We begin to notice details and textures that we never noticed before everyday life becomes clearer, sharper, and at the same time more spacious.

Rick Fields

#47. Kindness and a good heart are the foundation for success in this life, progress on the spiritual path, and the fulfillment of our aspirations. Our need for them is not limited to any specific time, place, society, or culture.

Dalai Lama

#48. but being on the spiritual path is not about making life pleasant. It's about seeing how to transcend both the pleasant and the unpleasant.

Sadhguru

#49. The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.

Marianne Williamson

#50. You take up the spiritual path only when you feel you cannot do otherwise.

The Mother

#51. People on the Spiritual Path are not anemic. They must be sharp, strong, and courageous. Being Spiritual means being Powerful, Dynamic, and Intelligent.

Choa Kok Sui

#52. The spiritual path can only be traveled through the daily experience of love.

Paulo Coelho

#53. If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.

Gautama Buddha

#54. The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there.

Terence McKenna

#55. The spiritual path is all about confronting resistance and finding strength from within.

Deepak Chopra

#56. I think most people think that a spiritual path or growing spiritually means that all of a sudden you'll be able to forecast the six lotto numbers and all your bills will be paid.

Iyanla Vanzant

#57. The idea is not to regard the spiritual path as something very luxurious and pleasurable but to see it as just facing the facts of life.

Chogyam Trungpa

#58. In Zen Buddhism it is said that "if you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him". Which means that if by walking on the spiritual path you encounter the rigid ideas and fixed laws of institutionalised Buddhism , you must free yourself from them too.

Yuval Noah Harari

#59. Writing is a spiritual path. It helps you listen to your heart, trust your inner guidance, and live your life full-out.

Robert Holden

#60. The message of love and compassion will travel far and wide if all who follow a spiritual path work together in harmony and mutual respect.

Dalai Lama

#61. The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.

Sri Aurobindo

#62. In some respects, if I had to choose just one (virtue on the spiritual path), I'd feel safest with a sense of humor. We pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, have a good laugh about human nature, and get on with our journeys.

Bo Lozoff

#63. Becoming integrated and whole is the spiritual path. The body is your vehicle. Your job is to learn about yourself from your experiences and change yourself. This is spiritual growth.

Gary Zukav

#64. There is a common misunderstanding that if you are going to be a "good" Buddhist, you will have to leave your career and run off to the woods to meditate 24/7 until you reach enlightenment. I don't think you have to do that in order to follow a spiritual path. I have seen my

Lodro Rinzler

#65. The spiritual path is not strewn with roses.

Haridas Chaudhuri

#66. The reality is, it takes daily cultivation of a spiritual path, preferably with spiritual kin in proximity, to sustain not the feeling of elation, but the focused, mindful path of steady growth.

S. Kelley Harrell

#67. There's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.

Pema Chodron

#68. Being liked or not, having company or not, being understood or not, being acknowledged or not are not issues of concern on the spiritual path.

Donna Goddard

#69. On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where your are right now. You can only start the journey from where you are.

Jaggi Vasudev

#70. Your life is your spiritual path.
It's what's right in front of you. You can't live anyone else's life. The task is to live yours and stop trying to copy one you think looks better.

Sandy Nathan

#71. I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.

Mariel Hemingway

#72. Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little.

Stephen Levine

#73. The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.

Geneen Roth

#74. Your spiritual path isn't always just something you find, you started it the moment you took your first breath, and ever since you're been getting closer and closer to remembering who you truly are!

Martin R. Lemieux

#75. The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth.

Malcolm X

#76. If you realize that the other person is a human being too, and you have exactly the same kind of spiritual path, and then the two can become good practitioners. This appears to be practical for both.

Nhat Hanh

#77. The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.

Alan Cohen

#78. What good is a theory of how the universe works if it's a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come nowhere tangential to experience? The only intellectual or noetic or spiritual path worth following is one that builds on personal experience

Terence McKenna

#79. In reality, when you feel depressed, lonely, betrayed, or any unwanted feelings, this is an important moment on the spiritual path. This is when real transformation can take place.

Pema Chodron

#80. What is one step I can take along my spiritual path today?

James Ricklef

#81. Tolerance is a sign of growth on the spiritual path

Sivananda

#82. The test, the mark, of a person that's on a spiritual path is whether they can live in harmony.

Melody Beattie

#83. I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we are fulfilling it by paying attention to ourselves.

Paulo Coelho

#84. Tantra and adventure are very, very connected. Perhaps the greatest enemy for one who's journeying along the spiritual path is complacency.

Frederick Lenz

#85. Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.

Tara Brach

#86. Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.

Joan Halifax

#87. People on the spiritual path are people of unquenchable discontent. It is being propagated that spirituality means contentment. Contentment means you have contented yourself with what you have. A spiritual person means he is unwilling to settle for anything less than the Ultimate.

Jaggi Vasudev

#88. Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.

Julia Cameron

#89. The object in being on the spiritual path is not to have just a little influx of energy, but to be the energy itself - consciously.

Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

#90. When we learn to deal directly with our complaints and difficulties, romanticized ideas about the spiritual path are no longer meaningful. We see that what is important is to take responsibility for ourselves, and to always be aware of our thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Tarthang Tulku

#91. I realize that the curriculum is my life on any given day. At this point, more than anything, my spiritual path means looking at every circumstance and trying to see my part in where it's good and where it's not so good.

Marianne Williamson

#92. Parenting is a spiritual path that can bring you great pain and great joy and that can have a tremendous positive impact on your personality and your behavior.

Vimala McClure

#93. The mind that spontaneously thinks each and every day 'I may die today' is the realization of death. It is this realization that directly eliminates our laziness of attachment and opens the door to the spiritual path.

Kelsang Gyatso

#94. Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.

Dalai Lama

#95. The spiritual path has no negative emotions and we are spiritual beings having human experience. The experiences need courage to complete the cleansing process. It defines the design that conforms to the external definitions of what we are.

Robert Jordan

#96. What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation ... we must follow what brings us alive.

Jack Kornfield

#97. It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.

Guy Finley

#98. For a seeker, Guru Purnima is a day of significance, is a day of New Year. It is the day to review one's progress on the spiritual path and renew one's determination and focus on the goal, and to resolve what one wants to do in the coming year

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#99. The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

Larry Dossey

#100. Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.

Sharon Salzberg